For reasons too plicated to get into now, I have an ajax call that returns some dynamically created Javascript that I want to inject into my page. The following code works on Chrome, but not in IE:

 var node = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.body;
  if (node)
  {
    var script = document.createElement("script");
    script.type = "text/javascript";
    //script.innerHTML = json.javascript;
    var textnode = document.createTextNode(json.javascript);
    script.appendChild(textnode);
    node.appendChild(script);
  }

In IE, I get "SCRIPT65535: Unexpected call to method or property access." As you can see from the mented out code, before I tried the textnode, I tried just inserting it with script.innerHTML. That also worked in Chrome, but in IE I got "SCRIPT600:Unknown runtime error".

Is there a way to stick some javascript into the DOM in IE?

For reasons too plicated to get into now, I have an ajax call that returns some dynamically created Javascript that I want to inject into my page. The following code works on Chrome, but not in IE:

 var node = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.body;
  if (node)
  {
    var script = document.createElement("script");
    script.type = "text/javascript";
    //script.innerHTML = json.javascript;
    var textnode = document.createTextNode(json.javascript);
    script.appendChild(textnode);
    node.appendChild(script);
  }

In IE, I get "SCRIPT65535: Unexpected call to method or property access." As you can see from the mented out code, before I tried the textnode, I tried just inserting it with script.innerHTML. That also worked in Chrome, but in IE I got "SCRIPT600:Unknown runtime error".

Is there a way to stick some javascript into the DOM in IE?

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• You are probably better off using jquery since you won't have to worry about certain features implemented differently in IE. – scartag Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 1:38
• If you know of a way to do this with jQuery, please let me know. $(node).html isn't working any better than script.innerHTML. – Paul Tomblin Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 1:39
• Maybe this helps: stackoverflow./questions/8610574/… – regulatethis Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 1:40
• @regulatethis, both the solutions on that question use innerHTML, which doesn't work in IE. – Paul Tomblin Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 1:42
• 1 Looks like there are some security restrictions with IE, here is a discussion about it. stackoverflow./questions/703705/… – specialscope Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 1:42

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And of course, as soon as I post this, I find http://www.phpied./dynamic-script-and-style-elements-in-ie/

  var node = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.body;
  if (node)
  {
    var script = document.createElement("script");
    script.type = "text/javascript";
    script.text = json.javascript;
    node.appendChild(script);
  }